A Bioengineering System for Assessing Children's Cognitive Development by Computerized Evaluation of Shared Intentionality

Abstract

The article creates a conceptual framework for translational research on the bond between shared intentionality magnitude in caregiver-child dyads and scores of children's cognitive development trajectory. The current study assessed the shared intentionality magnitude in 30 subjects (neurodivergent (ND) and neurotypical (NT) children) aged 2 to 10 years. Disclosing the relation of shared intentionality magnitude across different stages of children's development with their diagnoses allows for developing an assessing method of cognitive development trajectory in preverbal children. The article proposes directions for future research regarding (i) evidence of shared intentionality; (ii) proof of a shared intentionality assessment method validity, (iii) conditions for quantitative measurement to satisfy dependability in the cognitive development assessment.